The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-18

on the night Of the 10th Thomas F. Nc
Gowan fell out of box in Minneapolis
theater, and broke his neck.
IT was reported on the morning Of the
11th that the midnight sleeper on the
Cleveland q Pittsburgh railroad ran
through a bridge about six miles from
Cleveland, which had been weakened by
high water. 1t was impossible to verify
the rumor, or get details.
G. L. BUcKLY, recently of Detroit Mich,
suicided at Nebraska City, Neb., on the
10th, by cutting his throat. A few weeks
ago he made an unsuccessful attempt to
suicide by morphine. He was about to be
sent back to Michigan, where he has
wealthy relatives. Temporary insanity
was the cause Of his deed.
FIRE broke out in San Francisco on the
morning of the 10th, in a building occupied
as Chinese laundry and Japanese fancy
store. 1t communicated to the residence
adjoining on the west. The wash-hOuse
suddenly collapsed, burying a number of
firemen. John WatkinsOn, fireman, was
killed, and three others were fatally in
jured. 1t is thought that several China
men were among the ruins.
Oh the 11th four hundred houses were
burned at Rangoon, Burmah
Ok the 11th a smashup occurred on the
| Cleveland a. Pittsburgh road near Cleve-
land, but no lives were lost.
THE Ohio House of Representatives has
increased the reward for the Ravenna
murderers to $4,000
Ok the 11th Doodle" Alderman O'Neil
was sentenced at New York to four and
one half years Imprisonment and to pay
a fine of 5000.
w. L. CoYN, a real estate and insurance
agent of Rock Island, Ill, was found
guilty on the l1th of subornatiOn of per-
jury, and was sentenced to two and half
years in the penitentiary.
FRENCH Anarchists assert that the out
RACES at Lyons and St. Etienne are only
the beginning of an Anarchist campaign.
I'VE talked too long," they say, ''action IS
now needed"
OK the 1lth officers from Greenville, O.,
arrested Mrs. Sarah Rhoades, at Keyser,
w Va, and took her back to Greenville,
where she will be tried for the murder of
Alfred Blizzard at that place a week or so
| ago.
OK the night of the 10Th, Thomas B.
! Malone, of Stella, Eeb., walked intoa pawn
shop at Grand Island, Neb, asked to look
at a revolver, and placed it to his head and
fired, inhicting a fatal wound Before
| dying he said he did it because he was
| tired Of living.
AS a result of the investigation which
| has been in progress for several days by
| the board of freehOlders into the alleged
mismanagement of the Camden County
| On. j. almshouse, John L. Smith, chair
man of the almhouse committee, and Al
| fred Haines, late ST. yard Of the institu-
| tion, are locked up in the county Jail in de-
| fault of bail
OK the evening of the 11th, barn in De-
troit Mich, was burned, and in it per-
ished three valuable trottors. They were !:
Flora B., record 2:241{, value 5000; Joe
Hooker, record 2:19I{, value ZOO, and a
three-year-old flley, VALUED at 800. and
were owned by Tom Wood and James
Holihan The horses were insured for
$1,000
A RUSSIAN lady, satd to be the divorced
wife of a consular official at Philadelphia,
committed suicide at Wies baden, on the
18th, by shooting herself while riding in
a cab,
SIDNEY WALSH has been arrested at
Cleveland, o., and lodged in Jail with
twenty-one burglaries credited to him.
His young wife was locked up too
JOHN JACOBSON, of Omaha, Neb., muir
dered his infant child on the 18th and then
committed suicide by hanging himself
THE Hotel Continental at Berlin, costing
upwards of 81 ,O0),O)3, was burned on the
18TH and several human lives are report
ed to have been lost.
[ d. 8. ToDD. a merchant, was found dead
in his store at Des Moines, Ia, on the 18th
There is doubt as to whether he suicided
or was murdered